“Some team-mates have said that I was lucky with the arrival of Klopp, because I certainly would play,” Benteke told Sport/Voetbalmagazine.

“When your coach says he wanted to take you to Dortmund and a little later you sit at the same club and he ignores you, it is hard to understand.”Benteke has not started a match since Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to West Ham in the FA Cup on February 9, but the 25-year-old has hit back at suggestions that he is not suited to Klopp’s system.

"I do not understand why people say that,” he said.

“I can play pressing and moving a lot. It is not that we play in the Barcelona style.”